The whole America, the President and Congress have bent over the Terri Schiavo’s bed, looking forward to the Judge’s decision of her life-or-death issue.

Michael Schiavo - Terri’s husband and legal guardian - stands for Terri’s right to die, that means the disconnection of the feeding tube. Her parents battle for her life, involving all legal powers of Congress and President, and refuse to accept doctors’ diagnosis of unrecoverable Terri’s state. Thus, the private issue became not only the civil case to be settled by the U.S. District Judge James Whittemore, but also a political agenda of Republicans, which passed the law allowing Schiavo’s parents to run the case in the court. President Bush signed it. Ironically, Terri would have been let die unless the political struggle.

Terri Schiavo’s heart stopped briefly in 1990. Potassium imbalance brought on by an eating disorder is considered as a possible cause of it. She can breathe on her own. But only feeding tube cen keep her alive. Without it, her life would end in two weeks, doctors said.

Since 1990 the history of feeding tube’s disconnection and reconnection accounts three times, the last one taking place on Friday.

At the moment, the main decision is in power of James Whittemore, which is described as a reasonable and down-to-earth judge. But the Terri husband’s words seem the most realistic: "There is no happy ending".